samir nizar abd sahmoud

سمير نزار عبد سهمود

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The Websites of the Palestinian Universities as Criterion for Classification and its 
Use as Competitive Advantage. ( From the perspective of Students and Staff) 
 
Prepared by: Samir Nizar Abd Sahmoud 
 
Supervisor: Dr. Salwa Al-barghothi 
 
Abstract: 
The study aimed at addressing the role of website rating on university ranking from an out view 
of Palestinian university community (including the students and their teachers as the community 
study). Relying on top website ranking meters, and definitely the Webometrics international 
ranking, the study assumes six peculiarities for an exemplary university website as crucial rating 
factors: (Layout and design, Usability, Research gate, inclusivity, link functionality, and 
response). Then the study applied the six chosen web-rating criteria on a questioner targeting 
Palestinian university community in the scope of exploring their attitudes toward the role and 
the advantage of each of the six chosen parameters. A random stratified sample of 588 students 
and teachers were chosen out from the community study including (523) student sample and 
(35) teacher sample, all were chosen from three faculties at Al-Quds and Al-Istiqlal Universities 
as following: Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Law, and Faculty of Administration).  After 
surveying the 588 sample members with 100% respondents, an ABC analysis was conducted 
through the SPSS statistic method.  
Analysis has proven the university websites has crucial role in advancing Palestinian universities 
ranking competency. The study revealed out that the degree of competitive advantage of the 
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chosen universities was 72%. The study recommends that Palestinian universities have to 
improve their webpages in accordance with the assumed parameters, specially their research 
gates by the online publishing of their scientific researches and studies.  
 
 


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